Casting Plaster Shadows

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Lyrics

Practice your version of the truth. You stay away. Your words don’t bring me any comfort, bathe, or soothe For you, it’s through and through.

Switch sides will bring you happiness? I could abide. Change for you. Fill up your hallowed emptiness until I’m scraped aside.

Don’t you have gratitude? Don’t you have any reason? Give me some amplitude to play for your new season. You’re casting someone new. A plaster shadow of me. You haven’t changed the view. Still trying to rearrange me.

Don’t you have gratitude? Don’t you have any reason? Give me some amplitude to play for your new season. You’re casting someone new. A plaster shadow of me. You haven’t changed the view. Still trying to rearrange me.

You say you want to stay as friends. I will decide a new way. Pretend I have open heart for you. Peel away inside.

Don’t you have gratitude? Don’t you have any reason? Give me some amplitude to play for your new season. You’re casting someone new. A plaster shadow of me. You haven’t changed the view. Still trying to rearrange me.

Behind The Music

Behind The Music

Ryan brought in the music for this song which, at first, was more of a straightforward hard-rock progression.

John suggested switching the verses to a reggae / ska feel – which both agreed sounded pretty cool and helped give the song a nice contrast between sections.

John and Ryan wrote the lyrics together. While discussing lyrical imagery, John brought up how when we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, those unfortunate enough to be within the primary blast zone were so completely incinerated that only their shadow was left behind.

Dovetailing on that concept, Ryan noted that after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii, archaeologists discovered perfectly preserved “casts” of the island’s former residents, frozen in their final tragic moments by the falling volcanic ash.

The combination of those two tragedies provided the song title – “Casting Plaster Shadows” – and served as an allegory for the aftermath of a past relationship.

For most of us, being around an ex feels very awkward. You’ve shared your must intimate moments with that person, however you’re now essentially strangers.

All that’s left behind from the relationship are the incinerated shadows and empty plaster casts of the two people you once were.